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HOW  SHALL   WE    KNOW 


AT  HIS  COMING? 


How  Shall  We  Know 


At  His  Coming? 

Copyright  by  Max  Heindel   1914. 


Shorthand     Report     of    a     lecture    delivered     before     the     Los 

Angeles  Study  Center  Rx.   F.,  May  18th,   1913, 

by  Max  Heindel. 

There  is  a  picture  in  my  mind;  it  has 
rested  there  for  years;  off  and  on,  when  I 
have  time  from  the  busy  work  of  the  day  to 
turn  inwards  and  look  into  that  store  house, 
that  picture  appears.  Let  me  paint  it  for 
you.  Follow  me  backwards  in  time  about 
two  thousand  years,  the  scene  is  in  Palestine ; 
the  hills  are  bare;  a  little  group  of  men  are 
walking,  and  every  face  is  sad  in  that  group. 
They  are  mourning  for  One  who  they 
thought  was  coming  to  do  great  things-  -One 
who  has  been  taken  from  them  by  ruthless 
hands  One  whose  life  has  been  seemingly  de- 
stroyed, and  they  ask  themselves :  Is  this  to 
be  the  end?  This  was  a  subject  that  was 
very  close  to  their  hearts.  He  had  called 
them  friends.  He  had  said,  "Ye  are  my 


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friends,"  and  they  mourned  Him  as  a  friend. 
He  had  also  said  to  them,  "If  I  go  away,  I 
will  come  again/1  and  they  were  anxiously 
discussing  when  that  advent  would  take 
place. 

That  was  the  beginning,  but  ever  since 
that  time,  friends,  it  has  been  a  subject  of 
perennial  interest  among  those  who  call 
themselves,  by  His  grace,  friends  of  Christ, 
It  has  been  a  theme  of  keen  and  vital  inter- 
est among  them.  .  When  will  He  come 
again,  and  how  shall  we  know  Him  at  His 
coming?  He  had  told  them  that  many 
would  come  to  deceive;  that  if  people  told 
them  to  go  into  the  desert,  or  into  this 
place  or  that  place  to  look  for  Him,  they 
should  not  go.  He  had  told  them  that  the 
angels  in  heaven  did  not  know  that  day; 
that  even  the  Son  did  not  know,  but  only  the 
Father,  and,  as  said,  they  were  anxiously 
discussing  the  proximate  time  of  the  ad- 
vent and,  particularly,  how  they  might  pos- 
itively know  Him  at  His  appearance.  Pre- 
tenders— there  have  been  many  since  that 
day,  who  have  claimed  to  be  Christ;  some 
deceive  themselves  and  others  into  believing 
that  they  are  that  high  and  exalted  Teacher. 
There  are  others  who  deliberately  and  ma- 
liciously seek  to  usurp  His  place.  There- 


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4  HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  CHRIST? 

fore  the  subject:  How  shall  we  know  Him? 
has  perennial  interest. 

A  year  ago  there  appeared  in  an  English 
magazine  an  article  entitled  "Occult  Her- 
alds/' in  it  a  synopsis  of  the  Western  Myst- 
ery Teaching,  as  given  in  the  Rosicrucian 
Cosmo-Conception,  and  Eastern  Occultism, 
represented  by  a  society  promulgating  that 
doctrine,  were  ventilated.  The  leaders  of 
the  two  societies  were  compared,  and  their 
works.  Similarities  were  found,  but  the 
writer  also  noted  with  remarkable  penetra- 
tion what  superficial  students  of  the  West- 
ern Wisdom  Teaching  have  failed  to  per- 
ceive, namely,  the  vital  and  irreconcilable 
difference  in  the  teaching  regarding  Christ 
and  His  coming.  It  was  shown  that  accord- 
ing to  the  Eastern  teaching  both  Christ 
and  the  Bhudda,  were  men  in  ordinary  life 
six  thousand  years  ago,  while  in  the  West- 
ern mystery  teaching  it  is  said  just  as  em- 
phatically that  the  Christ  is  a  divine  Hier- 
arc  not  of  our  evolution.  "Who  for  us  men 
came  down,"  that  having  once  -shed  the 
dense  body,  He  will  never  appear  in  a  physi- 
cal vehicle  again. 

As  this  is  one  of  the  cardinal  differences 
between  the  Wisdom  of  the  West  and  the 
Eastern  Teaching  regarding  one  of  the 
greatest  problems  of  the  day,  it  seems  vital 


HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  CHRIST?  5 

that  all  students  of  the  Western  Wisdom 
teaching  should  thoroughly  understand  the 
matter.  I  am  therefore  going  to  depart 
from  the  usual  custom,  to  keep  the  Sunday 
evening  service  entirely  in  a  devotional 
line,  and  shall  take  part  of  the  evening  for 
a  technical  discussion  of  this  subject.  Were 
it  possible  to  be  away  from  the  Headquar- 
ters of  the  Rosicrucian  Fellowship,  I  would 
rather  defer  it  to  a  week  night,  but  the 
school  demands  my  presence  there,  hence 
we  must  ventilate  the  matter  tonight. 

To  systematize  our  discourse,  we  will  di- 
vide it  into  four  parts,  each  devoted  to  con- 
sideration of  a  question  which  has  a  definite 
hearing  upon  our  subject: 

1.  Who  is  Christ? 

2.  Why  did  He  come  in  the  first  place? 

3.  Why  must  He  come  Again? 

4.  How  shall  we  know  Him  at  His  Appearing? 

This  will  make  it  easier  for  those  who 
have  not  studied  the  Western  Wisdom 
Teaching  to  grasp  the  idea. 

WHO  IS  CHRIST? 

The  first  point  which  we  must  settle  is 
the  identity  of  Christ  as  taught  in  the 
Western  Mystery  School.  According  to  the 
chart,  "The  Seven  Days  of  Creation,'1  man 
has  gone  through  a  period  of  involution 
comprising  the  Saturn,  Sun  and  Moon  Peri- 


6  HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  CHRIST? 

ods;  also  one-half  of  the  Earth  Period;  in 
this  pilgrimage  through  matter  he  has  gath- 
ered the  vehicles  he  today  possesses. 

During  the  Saturn  Period,  when  we  were 
mineral-like,  some  beings  were  human  as 
we  are  today,  but  they  were  of  a  different 
wave  of  evolution.  They  have  since  ad- 
vanced, and  have  become  the  Lords  of 
Mind.  The  highest  initiate  of  that  evolu- 
tion— of  the  life  wave  that  was  then  in  the 
human  stage — is  called  in  esotericism,  the 
Father. 

The  highest  initiate  of  the  Sun  Period, 
when  those  beings  which  are  now  Arch- 
Angels  were  human,  is  called  the  Son, 
otherwise  the  Christ. 

The  present  day  Angels  were  human  in 
the  Moon  Period,  and  the  highest  initiate 
whom  we  now  call  Jehovah  is  also  called 
the  Holy  Spirit. 

There  we  have  the  status  of  the  three 
great  beings  most  active  as  leaders  of  evo- 
lution. 

The  humanity  of  the  Sun  Period  could 
not  descend  any  further  into  the  sea  of 
matter  than  the  Desire  World  (see  the 
chart),  therefore  their  lowest  vehicle  was 
the  desire  body,  and  as  it  is  a  cosmic  law 
that  no  being  can  create  a  vehicle  which  it 
has  not  learned  to  build  during  its  evolution, 


HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  CHRIST?  7 

any  more  than  a  carpenter  can  make  shoes, 
it  was  impossible  for  the  Christ  Spirit  to  be 
born  into  a  physical  body ;  He  could  not  form 
such  a  vehicle.  Neither  could  He  form  the 
vital  body,  made  of  ether.  He  also  lacked 
the  ability  to  function  in  the  latter  sub- 
stance, because  He  had  never  learned  it  in 
His  evolution.  To  supply  the  needed  vehi- 
cles for  Christ,  Jesus,  a  man  of  our  evolu- 
tion— a  man  born  of  a  father  and  a  mother 
—both  high  initiates,  who  made  the  cre- 
ative act  a  sacrifice  and  performed  the  im- 
maculate conception  without  passion,  gave 
up  his  dense  and  vital  bodies  at  the  Bap- 
tism— to  the  Sun  Spirit  Christ,  Who  then 
entered  the  material  world  and  became 
Mediator,  having  all  the  vehicles  necessary 
to  function  between  God  and  man.  Christ- 
Jesus  is  therefore  absolutetly  unique,  and 
the  Bible  tells  us  that  there  is  no  other  name 
whereby  we  must  be  saved,  but  by  the  name 
of  Christ  Jesus;  that  is  the  only  authorita- 
tive Christian  creed. 

Having  explained  the  identity  of  Christ 
and  Jesus  as  stated  in  the  Western  Wis- 
dom Teaching,  our  next  problem  is : 


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8  HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  CHRIST? 

WYH    DID    CHRIST    COME    HERE    IN    THE 

FIRST  PLACE? 

On  Golgotha,  the  physical  body  of  the 
Christ  was  destroyed  amid  certain  phe- 
nomena recorded  in  the  Bible,  and  the 
Christ  Spirit  drew  into  the  earth.  Up  to 
that  time  the  earth  had  been  worked  upon 
from  without.  As  the  group  spirits  guide 
animals  from  without,  so  the  earth  had 
been  guided  in  its  orbit,  and  mankind  had 
been  led  on  the  path  of  evolution  entirely 
by  Jehovah,  but  from  that  time  the  Christ 
became  our  indwelling  Earth-Spirit.  He 
now  guides  our  planet  in  its  orbit,  and  is 
endeavoring  to  replace  the  regime  of  war 
inaugurated  by  Jehovah,  on  the  one  hand, 
and  the  Martial  Lucifer  Spirits,  on  the 
other,  by  a  regime  of  altruism,  a  reign  of 
Universal  Friendship.  We  hear  much  about 
Universal  Brotherhood;  but  it  is  not  neces- 
sary to  form  societies  to  proclaim  that  we 
are  brothers;  everyone  knows  that,  there 
is  no  need  of  calling  attention  to  that  fact. 
Brothers  and  sisters  are  not  always  har- 
monious, however,  they  must  be  harmoni- 
ous if  they  are  to  be  friends,  and  therefore 
Christ  instituted  a  much  higher  ideal  when 
He  called  His  disciples  friends; — "If  ye 
love  one  another,  if  ye  keep  my  command- 
ments, then  ye  are  my  friends.'' 


HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  CHRIST?  9 

WHY   MUST  HE  COME  AGAIN? 

While  we  have  the  emphatic  promise  of 
Christ's  return,  there  are  many  Christians 
who  do  not  believe  in  the  Second  Advent,  so 
it  may  be  well  to  see  if  there  is  any  reason 
compelling  his  return. 

To  elucidate  this  point,  let  us  take  an  il- 
luminative incident  from  "Faust."  Though 
written  by  Goethe,  this  opera  was  not  a  fig- 
ment of  his  fancy,  the  legend  of  Faust  is 
older  than  history;  it  is  one  of  the  myths 
which  express  in  fanciful,  pictorial  terms 
the  story  of  the  soul's  search  after  light. 
These  tales  were  given  to  infant  humanity 
that  they  might  subconsciously  imbibe  the 
ideals  which  in  later  epochs  they  are  to  live. 
And,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  we  use  the  same 
methods  of  instruction  when  we  give  our 
children  picture  books  to  inculcate  ideas 
they  are  too  young  to  grasp  intellectually. 

Faust  has  studied  "Books"  all  his  life 
and  gradually  realizes  that  we  know  only 
what  we  live,  that  apart  from  practical  ap- 
plication in  daily  life,  book  learning  is  of 
no  value.  When  the  soul  awakes  to  this 
fact,  it  stands  at  the  portal  of  true  knowl- 
edge, looking  towards  the  LIGHT.  But  the 
road  forks,  one  path  is  smooth  and  easy, 
all  along  the  way  are  guides,  servile  and 


10  HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  CHRIST? 

smiling,  ready  to  encourage  the  traveler 
and  assist  him  in  any  way  he  desires,  and 
at  the  end  stands  Lucifer,  the  Lightbringer, 
ready  to  give  worldly  honors  to  them  that 
worship  at  his  shrine.  The  other  path  is 
rough,  rugged  and  dangerous;  sometimes  it 
is  very  dark;  many  a  weak  and  bleeding 
heart  is  upon  it,  and  full  often  one  may 
hear  the  cry  of  anguish:  "How  long,  Oh 
Lord!  How  long?"  But  though  the  soul 
struggles  seemingly  alone,  it  hears  always 
a  voice  within,  still,  small  and  soundless, 
yet  unmistakably  clear:  "Come  ye  that  are 
weak  and  heavy  laden,  and  I  will  give  you 
rest,"  and  occasionally  "The  True  Light," 
Christ,  the  goal  of  the  souls  search,  is  seen 
through  a  rift  in  the  storm  clouds  which 
must  be  passed  to  reach  the  summit  of  the 
path,  and  from  the  beatific  vision  the  seek- 
ing soul  gathers  new  strength. 

On  the  black  path  Lucifer  panders  to 
every  appetite  without  restraint  or  reser- 
vation. While  the  soul  drifts  with  the  tide, 
all  seems  easy,  and  pleasure  seems  to  wait 
at  every  turn,  but  when  at  length  it  has 
come  to  the  end  of  the  river  of  life,  instead 
of  soaring  aloft  to  its  proper  goal,  it  is 
drawn  down  by  the  base  appetites  which 
cling  to  it  as  the  flesh  of  an  unripe  fruit 
clings  to  the  kernel,  and  it  experiences  with 


HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  CHRIST?  11 

thousandfold  instensity  the  pain  incidental 
to  tearing  itself  away  from  the  fetters 
welded  by  sin. 

Thomas  a  Kempis  remarks  upon  the  de- 
sire of  the  majority  to  live  a  long  life,  and 
how  few  are  concerned  to  live  a  good  life. 
I  might  paraphrase  him  by  exclaiming, 
"Oh!  how  many  are  desirous  of  attaining 
spiritual  powers,  but  how  few  strive  to  cul- 
tivate spirituality.  The  story  of  Faust 
gives  us  an  insight  into  what  may  happen 
when  we  exclaim  with  all  the  intensity  of 
our  whole  being: 

Oh !    are  there  spirits  in  the  air, 

Who    oat    'twixt    heaven    and    earth    dominion 

wielding? 
Come   down   from  yonder  golden   atmosphere, 

Take  me  to  scenes  new  life  and  fuller  yielding. 
A  magic  mantle  did  I  but  possess, 

To   waft   me   thither   as   on   viewless   wings, 
I'   prize   it   more   than   any   earthly   dress, 

Nor  change  it  for  the  royal  robe  of  kings. 

By  this  impatience  and  desire  to  get 
something  for  nothing,  to  reap  where  he  has 
not  sown,  he  attracts  to  himself  a  spirit  of 
an  undesirable  nature,  for  the  inhabitants 
of  the  invisible  worlds  are  in  nowise  differ- 
ent from  people  here.  A  philanthropist  is 
not  found  on  every  bush  in  this  world, 


12  HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  CHRIST? 

neither  do  we  meet  angels  on  every  hand 
the  moment  we  step  across  the  border,  and 
the  only  safeguard  is  to  strive  to  be  worthy 
of  consciously  entering  those  realms.  When 
we  have  attained  the  requisite  character  we 
shall  not  have  to  wait. 

We  need  not  here  concern  ourselves 
with  what  bargain  was  proposed  to  Faust 
by  Lucifer,  who  had  followed  his  prospective 
victim  into  the  latters  study,  but  when  he 
turns  toward  the  door  and  is  about  to  leave 
he  sees  with  dismay  a  five  pointed  star  with 
two  points  turned  towards  the  door,  and  one 
point  facing  him.  This  he  asks  Faust  to 
remove,  and  upon  being  closely  questioned 
and  invited  to  leave  by  the  window  or  chim- 
ney, he  at  last  confesses : 

For  ghostly  spirits  'tis  a  law, 

Where  they  came  in  they  must  with- 
draw. 

This  is  a  most  important  point,  for,  as 
Lucifer  entered  the  study  of  Faust  by  the 
door  and  is  forced  to  leave  by  the  same  way, 
so,  as  Christ  entered  the  earth  by  way  of 
the  vital  body  of  Jesus,  must  He  leave  by 
that  same  way  upon  His  return  from  the 
redeemed  earth  to  the  sun,  His  heavenly 
Home ;  NO  other  vehicle  ivill  do. 

But  there  is  much  more  in  that  situa- 
tion between  Faust  and  Lucifer  of  interest 


HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  CHRIST?  1 


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in  this  connection.  The  door  is  open,  so 
why  should  the  five  pointed  star  bar  the 
exit  of  Lucifer,  specially  as  he -had  passed 
over  it  on  entering  the  study? 

The  fivepointed  star  is  the  emblem  of 
man  with  limbs  apart  and  arms  outstretch- 
ed, one  point  is  then  at  the  top  representing 
the  head  which  is  the  natural  gate  of  the 
spirit.  There  it  enters  its  future  body 
about  eighteen  days  after  the  conception, 
thence  it  leaves  when  the  body  sleeps,  it  re- 
enters  by  that  same  gate  in  the  morning, 
and  for  the  Invisible  Helpers  this  is  also  the 
exit  and  entrance.  Finally,  when  death 
comes  the  spirit  withdraws  by  way  of  the 
head. 

For  that  reason  the  five  pointed  star 
with  one  point  up  as  represented  in  the  em- 
blem of  the  Rosicrucian  Fellowship  is  the 
symbol  of  white  Magic  which  works  by 
natural  means  in  harmony  with  the  law  of 
evolution. 

The  pupil  of  a  Mystery  School  learns 
to  draw  the  creative  force  upwards  to  the 
brain  and  transmute  it  to  soulpower  by  a 
life  of  chastity  and  self  sacrifice.  This  soul- 
power  he  uses  to  project  himself  into  the 
higher  spheres  by  way  of  the  head.  The 
black  magician,  incapable  of  self-sacrifice, 
obtains  the  needed  power  by  perverted  use 


14  HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  CHRIST? 

of  the  life  force  of  his  victims,  which  pro- 
jects him  downwards,  by  way  of  the  feet, 
the  Silver  Cord  then  protrudes  through  the 
lower  organ,  and  he  must  re-enter  the  same 
way.  Therefore  the  five  pointed  star  with 
two  horns  pointing  up,  and  one  down,  is  the 
symbol  of  black  magic,  and  it  was  easy  for 
Lucifer  to  enter  the  study  of  Faust  as  the 
two  horns  of  the  star  were  pointed  towards 
the  entrance,  but  when  he  wishes  to  leave 
and  is  confronted  by  the  one  point  of  the 
symbol,  his  black  soul  is  repelled  by  the  em- 
blem of  purity  and  love. 

We  have,  of  course,  no  legal  evidence  that 
Christ  entered  the  earth,  and  is  there  parti- 
ally confined,  as  we  are  in  our  dense  bodies, 
but  there  is  plenty  of  mystic  knowledge,  and 
by  the  law  of  analogy  it  is  also  plainly  indi- 
cated that  Christ  spends  His  year-days 
partly  within  and  partly  without  the  earth. 

Cancer,  ruled  by  the  Moon  is  the  sign  of 
Conception.  The  Egyptians  pictured  it  as 
a  Beetle,  and  the  Scarab  was  their  symbol 
of  the  soul.  When  the  Light  of  the  World, 
the  Sun,  enters  Cancer  in  June,  the  creative 
power  of  the  last  cycle,  which  gave  life  to  the 
earth,  has  been  spent,  and  in  order  to  renew 
this  life,  which  would  otherwise  wane,  it 
must  again  descend.  At  the  Fall  equinox 
in  Libra,  the  Scales  tip,  and  the  germinative 


HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  (  HttlST?  15 

force  enters  our  earth,  reaching  the  center 
at  Christmas,  when  the  Sun  is  at  its  lowest 
point  of  declination,  the  winter  solstice. 
Thence  the  germinative  force,  the  Christ- 
ray,  radiates  to  fructify  matter  anew  and  it 
reaches  the  pheriphery  of  the  earth  at  the 
time  the  Sun  crosses  the  celestial  equator  at 
the  vernal  equinox  in  Aries.  Then  the 
Savior,  the  lamb  of  God,  dies  to  the  world, 
but  becomes  alive  to  the  higher  spheres. 
Thus,  as  we  are  confined  in  our  dense  bodies 
from  morning  till  night,  through  the  activity 
of  the  day,  so  the  Christ  is  confined  in  the 
earth  from  the  Fall  to  the  Vernal  equinox, 
which  is  the  time  when  physical  activities 
are  largely  in  abeyance,  but  spiritual  efforts 
bring  best  results.  And  as  we  are  released 
from  our  bodies  at  night,  and  enter  the  in- 
visible worlds  to  recuperate  from  the,  to  the 
spirit,  cramping  conditions  of  physical  ex- 
istence, so  also  the  Christ  is  temporarily  re- 
leased from  the  earth  at  the  cross  (ifixion) 
when  we  see  the  sun  "passover"the  celestial 
equator  and  soar  into  the  high  heavens. 
That,  therefore  is  the  time  we  feel  spiritual 
impulse  waning,  and  devote  our  energy  to 
physical  activity  of  tilling  the  soil  and  mak- 
ing two  blades  of  grass  grow  where  there 
grew  but  one. 


16  HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  CHRIST? 

According  to  the  common  view  of  the  mat- 
ter, Christ  completed  the  Sacrifice  on  Gol- 
gotha, but  as  a  matter  of  fact,  that  was  only 
the  beginning,  He  is  still  bound  to  the  earth 
as  we  are  to  our  "Bodies  of  Death.''  He 
suffers  as  we  suffer,  only  with  an  intensity 
we  cannot  comprehend,  He  is  still  "groaning 
and  travailing,  waiting  for  the  manifesta- 
tion of  the  Sons  of  God"  which  means  our- 
selves. When  a  sufficient  number  have 
experienced  the  Birth  of  the  Christ  within, 
so  that  they  can  bealr  their  Brothers  burden 
and  give  their  life  as  Christ  is  now  giving 
His,  then  will  the  hour  of  Liberation  strike, 
and  Christ  may  permanently  return  to  the 
Sun.  But  as  He  entered  at  the  periphery 
when  He  came,  so,  under  the  law  just  ex- 
plained, must  He  again  return  to  the  surface 
of  the  earth,  and  that  in  itself  constitutes  the 
Second  Coming. 

There  is  no  warning  in  the  Bible  more  em- 
pathic  than  that  given  by  Christ  against 
claimants  to  Christhood.  He  declared  that 
some  would  work  signs  and  wonders  which 
might  deceive  the  very  elect,  and  we  cannot 
do  better  than  bring  His  words  to  mind  as  we 
start  consideration  of  our  last  question : 


HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  CHRIST?  17 

HOW   SHALL   WE   KNOW   CHRIST   AT    HIS 

APPEARING? 

Christ  said :  "Take  heed  lest  any  man  de- 
ceive you ;  for  many  shall  come  in  my  name, 
saying,  I  am  Christ ;  and  shall  deceive  many. 
And  if  any  man  shall  say  to  you,  Lo,  here  is 
Christ;  or,  lo,  He  is  there;  believe  him  not. 
For  false  Christs  and  false  prophets  shall 
rise,  and  shall  show  signs  and  wonders,  to 
seduce,  if  it  were  possible,  the  very  elect.  .  . 
then  shall  they  see  the  Son  of  man  coming  in 
the  clouds  with  great  power  and  glory.  .  .  . 
He  shall  send  His  Angels  and  gather  to- 
gether His  elect  from  the  four  winds.  .  .  . 
But  of  that  day  and  hour  knoweth  no  man, 
no,  not  the  angels  which  are  in  heaven, 
neither  the  Son,  but  the  Father." — Mark  13. 

From  these  passages  we  see  how  careful 
we  must  be  not  to  be  lured  away  by  false  de- 
ceivers, but  there  is  plenty  of  light  also  to 
guide  us  aright,  and  certain  signs  are  indi- 
cated whereby  we  may  surely  know  Christ 
from  imitators.  The  most  conclusive  sign 
of  imposotors  is  that  no  matter  how  clever 
their  plea,  they  come  clothed  in  a  physical 
body.  There  are  good  reason  why. 


18  HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  CHRIST? 

CHRIST  WILL  NOT  COME  IN  A  PHYSICAL 

BODY 

No  such  vehicle  can  endure  the  tremend- 
ous vibrations  of  so  great  a  spirit.  You  will 
remember  from  the  scriptures  that  Christ 
frequently  absented  Himself  from  His  dis- 
ciples. On  these  occasions  He  was  wont  to 
take  Jesus  body  to  the  Essenes  who  were  men 
of  our  evolution,  and  expert  esoteric  phy- 
sicians, skilled  in  the  care  of  the  body.  They 
restored  the  tone,  and  thus  held  the  body 
together  for  three  years.  From  Golgotha 
the  body  was  taken  to  the  grave,  and  as  the 
cohesive  influence  was  withdrawn,  the  atoms 
simply  scattered  to  the  four  winds,  and  when 
the  tomb  was  opened,  only  the  clothing  was 
found. 

To  obtain  another  physical  vehicle  for  the 
Second  Coming,  in  the  same  manner  as  the 
first  was  provided  would  be  difficult;  but, 
could,  of  course,  be  accomplished.  Under 
the  law  that  a  Spirit  must  leave  where  it 
enters  however,  only  that  one  body  of  Jesus 
would  avail,  and  as  that  has  been  destroyed 
it  is  impossible  that  Christ  should  appear  in 
a  physical  vehicle.  Therefore,  as  said,  pos- 
session of  such  a  body  marks  the  pretender 
and  impostor. 

But,  supposing  that  this  "Law,"  is  only 
a  figment  of  the  writers  fancy,  and  that  the 


HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  CHRIST?  19 

law  of  analogy  quoted  in  support,  is  only 
coincidence,  our  contention  is  still  supported 
by  the  Bible,  regardless  of  all  other  evidence. 
Christ  said:  "if  they  shall  say  unto  you. 
Behold,  He  is  in  the  desert ;  go  not  forth ;  be- 
hold, He  is  in  the  secret  chambers;  believe 
it  not."  Thus  Christ  is  not  to  be  found  in 
any  physical  place.  Paul  also  declares  em- 
phatically that  "flesh  and  blood'  cannot  in- 
herit the  Kingdom,  and  if  we  are  to  be 
"clothed  with  a  house  from  heaven/'  why 
should  the  leader  of  the  new  dispensation 
have  a  physical  vehicle? 

But  the  Bible  does  not  leave  the  matter  by 
telling  us  where  not  to  look  for  Christ.  He 
said  emphatically:  "The  Son  of  Man  shall 
come  in  the  clouds. r  When  He  finally  left 
His  disciples,  "He  was  taken  up,  and  a  cloud 
received  Him  out  of  their  sight.  And  while 
they  looked  steadfastly  toward  heaven  as  He 
went  up  ,two  men  stood  by  them  in  white 
apparal  which  also  said:  "He  shall  so  come 
in  like  manner  as  ye  have  seen  him  go  into 
heaven.  (Acts  I.  10-11.)  Paul  says:  "The 
Lord  Himself  shall  descend  from  heaven 
.  .  .  then  we  ...  shall  be  caught 
up  in  the  clouds  to  meet  the  Lord  in  the  air." 
(I.  Thes.  IV.  16-17).  John  saw  the  first 
heaven  and  earth  pass  away — the  sea  dried 
up,  and  a  holy  city  descended  from  heaven,  of 


20  HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  CHRIST? 

which  Christ  was  regent.  These  things  are 
manifestly  physical  impossibilities.  A  body 
of  flesh  and  blood  cannot  ascend  into  the  air, 
and  Paul  emphatically  asserts  that  "flesh 
and  blood  cannot  inherit  the  Kingdom  of 
God."  If  we  cannot  enter  in  that  gar- 
ment, how,  in  a  Universe  of  Law,  can  Christ, 
the  Leader,  use  a  physical  body? 

If  we  can  now  find  out  what  sort  of  a 
vehicle  He  used,  we  shall  know  how  we  may 
recognize  Him,  and  also  how  we  shall  be 
constituted,  for  "we  shall  be  like  Him"  ac- 
cording to  John :  "Beloved,  now  are  we  the 
sons  of  God,  and  it  does  not  yet  appear,  what 
we  shall  be ;  but  we  knoiv  that  when  He  shall 
appear,  we  shall  be  like  Him."  (I.  John, 
III.  2.)  Paul  says:  "Our  Commonwealth 
(not  "conversation,"  as  translated,  the 
Greek  word  is  "politeuma" ;  polity,  or  com- 
monwealth, and  is  used  by  the  apostle  in 
reference  to  the  "new  heaven  and  earth"). 
Our  Commonwealth  is  in  heaven,  whence 
also  we  are  expecting  a  Savior,  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ,  who  shall  change  our  vile  body 
that  it  may  be  fashioned  like  unto  His  glori- 
ous body.  (Phil.  III.  20-21). 

The  body  Christ  used  after  Golgotha  was 
also  capable  of  entering  a  room  with  closed 
doors,  for  He  thus  appeared  to  His  disciples 
and  allowed  Thomas  to  touch  Him.  Can 


HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  CHRIST?  21 

pseudo  Christs  in  a  physical  body  do  that? 
I  believe  not. 

That  feat  requires  a  vehicle  more  subtle 
than  the  physical,  and  no  amount  of  sophis- 
tory  can  evade  this  argument  that  Christ 
will  use  a  vehicle  more  subtle  than  the  phy- 
sical, for  the  Bible  teaches  that  Christ  used 
such  a  subtle  body  after  the  resurrection, 
that  He  ascended  to  Heaven  therein,  that  He 
is  to  return  in  that  same  body,  and  that  we 
shall  be  changed  to  a  state  where  we  are  like 
Him  in  that  respect. 

The  final  question  then  arises:  Does  the 
Bible  then  teach  us  definitely  what  that  ve- 
hicle is,  and  is  there  any  information  where- 
by we  may  obtain  full  and  definite  knowledge 
concerning  this  new  vehicle?  For  our 
answer  we  shall  go  to  that  inimitable  15th 
chapter  of  1st  Corinthians  where  Paul 
teaches  the  doctrine  of  rebirth  by  means  of 
the  seedatoms  as  clearly  as  the  Western 
Wisdom  Teaching  of  today. 

In  the  English  version  the  45th  verse 
reads:  "There  is  a  natural  body  and  a 
spiritual  body" ;  but  the  New  Testament  was 
not  written  in  English,  and  as  the  transla- 
tors knew  nothing  of  the  inner  teachings 
they  had  no  idea  how  to  translate  the  Greek 
word  in  that  case,  to  them  it  seemed  sense- 
less, so  they  translated  it  as  best  they  knew. 


22  HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  CHRIST? 

I  will  leave  you,  however,  to  translate  it  for 
yourselves,  though  you  may  not  be  Greek 
scholars.  The  word  that  is  used  there,  and 
translated  "natural  body",  is  Soma  Psuchi- 
con.  Soma  is  a  Greed  word  that  everybody 
agrees  is  body, — there  is  no  question  about 
that — but  Psuchicon — psuche —  (psyche) — 
the  soul, — a  soul  body ;  they  had  never  heard 
of  that,  it  probably  seemed  foolish  to  them. 
It  is  true  that  Paul  states  in  1st  Thessalon- 
ians,  5 :23,  that  man's  whole  being  is  spirit, 
soul  and  body,  but  most  likely  they  regarded 
soul  and  spirit  as  synonymous  but  there  is  a 
vast  difference  however,  as  explained  in  the 
"Rosicrucian  Mysteries,"  so  they  translated 
the  word,  "natural  body/1  Now,  that  is  the 
vehicle  Paul  refers  to  as  the  one  in  which  we 
shall  meet  Him,  it  is  composed  of  ether  and 
therefore  capable  of  levitation  and  passing 
walls  as  all  dense  matter  is  permeated  with 
ether.  Invisible  Helpers  use  it  today  as 
Christ  did. 

At  the  first  blush  it  seems  very  strange 
nevertheless,  when  it  is  said  that  we  shall 
meet  the  Lord  "in  the  air/  that  this  earth  is 
to  be  left  behind,  but  it  is  not  strange,  either, 
when  we  consider  that  the  path  of  evolution 
has  ever  been  from  within  outward;  that 
there  was  a  time  in  the  Lemurian  Epoch 
when  this  earth  was  a  fiery  state,  and  when 


HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  CHRIST? 

man  lived  on  the  crust  that  was  forming 
close  to  the  fiery  core,  in  a  body  that  was 
just  beginning  to  encrust;  that  he  lived,  in 
the  Atlantean  Epoch,  down  in  the  dense  mist 
which  arose  from  the  cooling  earth  as  said 
in  Genesis  2,  in  the  basins  of  the  earth,  then 
he  was  called,  as  was  said  in  the  German 
folk  story,  "Nibelungen," — Nibel  meaning 
mist,  and  Ungen  children — Children  of  the 
Mist.  We  have  the  Bible  story  of  how  they 
were  guided  by  their  teachers,  how  gradu- 
ally this  foggy  atmosphere  of  the  earth  con- 
densed when  the  planet  cooled,  and  finally 
the  waters  came  down  from  Heaven  in  that 
which  is  termed  'the  flood.'  We  then  know 
that  man  left  the  low  lands,  which  are  sub- 
merged by  the  condensed  mist  which  is  the 
sea,  and  entered  upon  a  new  era  of  develop- 
ment under  the  present  conditions,  that 
he  then  saw  for  the  first  time,  when  the  sun 
shone  upon  the  clouds,  the  rainbow,  and  that 
it  was  told  him  that  so  long  as  that  sign 
remained  the  succession  of  changes  which 
we  know  as  the  seasons  would  continue,  and 
so  long  as  we  have  this  atmospheric  condi- 
tion, this  era  of  alernations  will  naturally 
continue,  slowly  but  surely,  we  are  climbing 
towards  the  hilltops  of  the  earth,  we  seek 
higher  and  higher  levels.  The  higher  the 
evolution  of  the  races,  the  more  they  want  to 


24  HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  CHRIST? 

go  into  the  air,  and  gradually  they  are  leav- 
ing the  lowlands  behind.  As  it  was  in  the  . 
days  of  Noah,  the  day  will  come  when  there 
will  be  a  great  cosmic  change ;  Christ  refers 
to  it  in  speaking  of  His  coming,  where  he 
says: — "As  it  was  in  the  days  of  Noah,  so 
shall  it  be  in  the  days  of  the  Son  of  man." 
People  went  about  as  they  had  always  done, 
they  married  and  they  gave  in  marriage,  they 
ate  and  drank  and  lived  their  worldly  lives 
but  suddenly  the  flood  desended  upon  an- 
cient Atlantis,  and  the  vehicles  they  had 
could  no  longer  be  of  service  to  them;  they 
needed  vehicles  in  which  they  could  accomo- 
date  themselvs  to  the  new  atmospheric  con- 
ditions, just  as  the  baby  when  it  is  born, 
must  accommodate  itself  to  the  instant 
change  from  a  breathing  under  water  to 
breathing  in  the  air.  Unless  it  can  do 
that,  it  perishes,  and  it  was  the  same  in 
the  case  of  the  Atlanteans  who  were  used 
to  breathe  in  the  watery  mist  atmosphere. 
Those  who  were  not  physiologically  adjust- 
able drowned. 

Christ  said  that  a  similiar  condition  will 
be  found  at  His  coming.  Those  who  lived 
in  Atlantis  might  not  have  noticed  the  phy- 
siological development  which  took  place  in 
some,  and  thus  made  them  fit  to  change 
from  breathing  of  water,  to  a  breathing 


HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  CHRIST?  25 

of  air  directly,  into  the  lungs;  similarly 
there  is  a  change  going  on  in  humanity 
that  is  not  observable  by  those  who  have 
not  cultivated  spiritual  sight,  but  it  is  a  fact, 
nevertheless,  that  an  auric  atmosphere  is 
surrounding  every  human  being.  We  know 
that  often  we  feel  the  presence  of  a  person 
whom  we  do  not  see,  who  may  be  stand- 
ing behind  us,  but  we  feel  it  because  there 
is  this  atmosphere  outside  of  our  dense 
bodies,  and  that  is  gradually  changing, 
gradually  it  is  becoming  more  and  more 
golden  in  the  West.  The  further  we  go 
with  the  sun,  the  more  this  golden  color  in- 
creases— the  color  of  the  Christ  and  of  the 
Christlike:  the  saints  whom  painters  have 
depicted  with  a  halo,  gradually  we  are  be- 
coming more  like  Him,  and  this  Soma 
Psuchicon  or  vital  body  is  taking  shape,  is 
being  made  ready  as  our  wedding  garment. 
An  increasing  number  of  people  are  becom- 
ing capable  of  functioning  that  vehicle,  and 
more  and  more  are  thus  getting  ready  for 
the  day  of  Christ.  This  change  is  not 
wrought,  by  any  physical  process,  but  by 
service,  by  love,  by  what  we  know  in  the 
Western  world  as  altruism,  which  is  per- 
meating society  more  and  more.  We  are 
becoming  more  and  more  human,  we  are 
becoming  more  and  more  Christlike,  though 


26  HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  CHRIST? 

far  from  perfect,  but  though  the  day  will 
not  perhaps  be  in  this  century,  or  the  next, 
or  the  next  millenium,  we  nevertheless  can 
see  that  spiritual  change  that  is  going  on  in 
mankind,  and  it  depends  upon  us  to  hasten 
the  day  of  Christ,  for  as  He  Himself  has 
said,  "That  day  knoweth  no  man."  No  man 
can  tell  when  a  sufficient  number  shall  have 
evolved  that  soul — that  Soma  Psuchicon — 
to  such  a  condition  that  we  shall  be  able  to 
do  the  work  which  He  is  now  doing  for  us. 
We  have  come  down  into  the  sea  of  matter, 
and  for  our  sake  it  has  been  necessary  for 
the  Christ  to  enter  the  earth  to  help  us  from 
within.  For  our  sake  He  is  now  groaning 
and  travailing  there,  waiting  for  the  mani- 
festtion  of  the  sons  of  God,  and  it  depends 
upon  us  whether  we  will  hasten  or 
whether  we  will  retard  that  day.  Every 
act  of  ours  has  some  effect  in  that  respect — 
every  single  one  of  us  has  our  work  to  do  in 
this  world,  and  the  sooner  we  learn  to  do  it 
the  better  it  is  for  us.  Not  that  we  should 
go  abroad  to  seek  the  Christ — He  is  not 
found  there.  He  said  Himself,  "Go  not  out 
in  the  desert",  do  not  seek  in  those  places; 
the  Christ  is  formed  from  within — that  soul 
body  that  is  gradually  becoming  capable  of 
lifting  itself  above  the  hills,  is  struggling 
for  recognition  within  each  aspirant  to  the 


HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  CHRIST?  27 

higher  life ;  as  Faust  says : 

'Two   souls,    alas !    are   housed    within    my    breast ; 

And  struggle  there  for  undivided  reign. 
One  to  the  earth,  with  passionate  desire, 

And  closely  clinging  organs,  still  adheres ; 
Above  the  mists  the  other  does  aspire, 

With  sacred  ardor,  unto  purer  spheres." 

Friends,  in  every  one  of  us  there  is  that 
struggle  going  on  between  the  higher  and 
the  lower  nature.  Paul  fought  the  battle, 
and  every  seeking  soul  must  fight  the  battle, 
but  do  not  think  of  going  into  the  wide  world 
to  fight  and  to  find.  Sir  Launf  al  went  away 
from  his  home  as  a  young  man ;  he  spent  a 
whole  life  seeking  the  grail,  and  then  when 
he  came  back  to  his  own  castle,  he  found  the 
same  beggar  that  he  had  scornfully  left  at 
his  departure,  and  when  he  did  the  right 
thing,  when  the  spirit  of  Service  entered 
him,  then  the  Christ  manifested.  The  cup 
that  he  filled  at  the  streamlet's  brink,  and 
gave  the  leper  to  eat  and  drink — of  that  cup 
and  that  crust,  the  Savior,  standing  before 
him,  said :  "This  is  my  body  and  this  is  my 
blood." 

'The  holy  supper  is  kept   indeed 

In  whatso  we  share  with  another's  need." 

It  is  not  what  we  give,  but  what  we  share. 
Those  who  only  give  of  abundance,  of  the 
things  that  they  have  no  need  of — the  things 
that  are  really  a  burden  to  them — the  things 


28  HOW  SHALL  \VE  KNOW  CHRIST? 

that  they  do  not  miss  at  all — they  do  not 
know  what  giving  is.  'The  gift  without 
the  giver  is  bare" — that  is  the  point;  unless 
we  give  ourselves  our  gifts  are  barren. 
"Greater  love  hath  no  man  than  that  he  lay 
down  his  life  for  his  friend."  That  is  not  a 
single  act  of  laying  down  the  life  for  the 
friend,  but  it  is  the  constant  daily  self-sacri- 
fice. "I  was  anhungered,  and  I  was  thirsty, 
and  ye  visited  me."  That  is  the  only  re- 
quisite. May  we  earn  it,  friends.  Neither 
need  we  seek  far;  it  is  right  here.  We  all 
know  that  little  poem  about  letting  our  light 
shine  just  where  we  are.  Everyone  of  us 
cannot  be  a  star, — everyone  of  us  cannot 
shine,  everyone  cannot  be  a  leader,  but  every- 
one can  do  just  the  little  bit,  just  light  his 
own  little  bit  of  a  candle,  and  let  that  dispell 
some  of  the  darkness  in  his  or  her  immediate 
environment.  That  is  all  we  have  to  do,  and 
if  we  do  just  that  much,  then  we  shall  find 
that  that  candle  will  be  as  a  blazing  star  to 
guide  us  to  the  Christ  at  His  coming,  and 
then  we  shall  be  sure  to  know  Him,  for  we 
shall  find  the  response  from  within.  It  is 
said,  we  shall  know  Him  because  we  shall  be 


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HOW  SHALL  WE  KNOW  CHKIST?  29 

like  Him,  and  seeing  that  He  has  no  physical 
body  in  which  to  come,  we  must  evolve  that 
vehicle  of  the  soul,  that  Soma  Psuchicon,  so 
that  when  He  appears,  we  may  meet  Him, 
and  be  clothed  in  that  golden  wedding 
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PARTIAL,     LIST     OF     SUBJECTS. 
Section  1.  —  Life  on  Earth.      Social   Conditions 

Marriage,      Children,      Sleep      and      Dreams 

Health   and    Disease. 
Section     II.  —  Life     After     Death.       Cremation 

Purgatory,    The    First    Heaven,    The    Secern 

Heaven,      The      Third      Heaven,      Guardiai 

Angels. 
Section    III.  —  Rebirth.     The    Law    of    Rebirth 

The   Law   of   Causation,   Transmigration. 
Section  IV.  —  The  Bible  Teachings.      The  Crea 

tion,  the  Fall,   The  Immaculate  Conception 

Sayings   of  Christ. 
Section     V.  —  Spiritualistic     Phenomena...     Me 

diumship,   Obsession,'  Materialisation. 
Section   VI.—  Clairvoyance.      Dangers   of   Phy 

chism,    True    Spiritual    Unfoldment,    Initia 

tion. 

Section  VII.  —  Astrology.    True  and   False 
Section  VIII.—  Animals.     Their  Life  Here  an< 

Hereafter. 


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No.   1.      "The  Riddle  of  Life  and  Death." 

Presenting  a  solution  which  is  both  sci- 
entific and  religious. 

No.  2.     "Where  Are  the  Dead?" 

No.  3.  "Spiritual  Sight  and  the  Spiritual 
Worlds."  Showing  that  we  have  a  lat- 
ent, '.'sixth  sense,"^  and  what  it  opens  up 
to  "us  when  cultivated. 

No.  4.  "Sleep,  Dreams,  Trance  Hypno- 
tism, Mediumship  and  Insanity. 

No.  5.  "Death  and  Life  in  Purgatory." 
Describing  the  method  of  death  and 
purgation,  also  how  immutable  law  and 
not  an  avenging  Deity  transmutes  the 
evil  acts  of  life  to  everlasting  good. 

No.  6.  "Life  and  Activity  in  Heaven." 
Showing  how  the  Human  Spirit  assimi- 
lates the  Good  of  its  past  life  and  cre- 
ates its  environment  for  a  future  re- 
birth, also  how  it  prepares  a  new 
body. 

No.  7.  "Birth  a  Fourfold  Event."  De- 
scribing antenatal  preparations  for 
birth,  and  the  spiritual  changes  which 
inaugurate  the  period  of  excessive  phys- 
ical growth  in  the  7th  year;  puberty  at 
14  and  maturity  at  21.  This  knowl- 
edge is  absolutely  essential  to  the 
right  care  of  a  child. 

No.  8.  "The  Science  of  Nutrition,  Health 
and  Protracted  Youth."  Showing  the 
material  cause  of  early  death  and  the 
obvious  prophylactic. 

No.  9.  "Astronomical  Allegories  of  the 
Bible."  A  mystic  scroll. 

No.  10.  "Astrology;  Its  Scope  and  Liml» 
tations."  Showing  the  spiritual  side  of 
astrology,  how  it  enables  those  who 


study  it  to  help  themselves  and  others. 

No.  11.  "Spiritual  Sight  and  Insight." 
Its  culture,  control  and  legitimate  use, 
giving  a  definite  and  safe  method  of  at- 
tainment. 

No.  12.  "Parsifal.**  Wagner's  famous 
Mystic  Muse  Drama,  a  mine  of  inspira- 
tion and  devotion. 

No.  13.  "The  Angels  as  Factors  in  ETO- 
lution."  Showing  just  what  part  the 
Angels,  Archangels,  Cherubim,  Seraph- 
im, etc.,  play  in  the  Drama  of  Life. 

No.  14.  "Lucifer,  Tempter  or  Benefac- 
tor?'* Showing  the  origin  and  the 
mission  of  pain  and  sorrow. 

No.  15.  "The  Mystery  of  Golgotha  and 
the  Cleansing  Blood.**  A  rational  ex- 
planation which  satisfies  head  and 
heart  alike. 

No.  16.  "The  Star  of  Bethlehem;  a  Mys- 
tic Fact.** 

No.  17.  "The  Mystery  of  the  Holy  Grail." 
The  way  to  attainment. 

No.  18.  "The  Lord's  Prayer."  Showing 
the  esoteric  side,  and  how  it  applies  to 
the  seven-fold  constitution  of  man. 

No.  19.  "The  Coming  Force— Vril!  01 
What?" 

No.  20.  "Fellowship  and  the  Coming 
Race."  Showing  why  the  Bible  con- 
tains both  the  Jewish  and  Christian 
Religions,  why  both  combined  are  pe- 
culiarly adapted  to  the  spiritual  needs 
of  the  Western  World  and  why  Jesus 
was  born  a  .lew. 

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